End Titles... Stories for Film is a compilation album by British electronic music act Unkle, inspired by feature films created since Unkle's previous 2007 album War Stories, released on . Unlike their previous album, the 2005 mix Edit Music for a Film: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Reconstruction, "End Titles..." is composed of original material. It features collaborators: Josh Homme (of Queens of the Stone Age), Black Mountain, Gavin Clark, Joel Cadbury (of South), James Petralli (of White Denim), War Stories producer Chris Goss, Dave Bateman, and James Griffith of Lake Trout/Unkle's touring band.
Background
In the credits to the album James Lavelle stated:
Release
The track "Trouble in Paradise (Variation on a Theme)" is a full-length version of a track from the BMW commercial that was aired on British television. "Chemical" originally appeared as an instrumental on Unkle's album War Stories under the title "Chemistry". Josh Homme, who also sang on "Restless" from the same album, now sings vocals over the track. Tracks "Blade in the Back", "Synthetic Water" and "Heaven" made their first appearance on Unkle's Japanese-Australian album More Stories.
The limited edition CD of End Titles... Stories for Film is packaged in a four panel wrap around digipak with an embossed gloss finish and includes a 12-page booklet.
X-Files end titles
The premiere of End Titles... Stories for Film has been promotionally linked to Unkle's "reinterpretation" of Mark Snow's "The X-Files Theme" as an end title for The X-Files sequel feature movie, The X-Files: I Want to Believe, although the newly recorded track is not featured on Unkle's album. Beside the song "Broken" from War Stories, it will be featured on the movie's score soundtrack "The X-Files: I Want to Believe: Original Score" (composed by Snow). On British radio network Xfm informed that the track "X-Files (Unkle Variation on a Theme) – Surrender Sounds Session #10" was available to free download.
Redux Release
On seven re-interpreted tracks from End Titles… Stories For Film, with two unreleased tracks "When Once It Was" and "A Perfect Storm", were released digitally as End Titles... Redux. The official UNKLE store offered 3000 limited-edition CDs of the album. The exclusive package is a 6-panel soft-pack with a 12-page booklet, with images by Robert Del Naja.
Several tracks from the Redux edition were included in a collaboration with fashion house Alexander McQueen titled Unkle For McQ for the Autumn/Winter 2009 collection, which was given away at an Alexander McQueen press day.
Track listing
All track written by James Lavelle, Pablo Clements, James Griffith except where noted "End Titles" – 0:35 "Cut Me Loose" (featuring Gavin Clark) – 5:24 "Ghosts" [vocals by James Lavelle] (C. Goss, D. Bateman) – 4:57 "Ghosts (String Reprise)" – 0:39 "Kaned and Abel" – 1:04 "Blade in the Back" (featuring Gavin Clark) – 5:12 "Synthetic Water" – 1:06 "Chemical" (featuring Josh Homme) (C. Goss, J. Homme, R. File) – 2:48 "Nocturnal" (featuring Chris Goss, James Petralli and Robbie Furze) (C. Goss) – 5:01 "Cut Me Loose (String Reprise)" – 0:59 "Against the Grain" (featuring Gavin Clark) – 5:22 "Even Balance (Part Two)" (featuring Melinda Gareh) – 0:45 "Trouble in Paradise (Variation on a Theme)" – 5:01 "Can't Hurt" (featuring Gavin Clark & Joel Cadbury) (J. Cadbury) – 4:13 "24 Frames" – 4:45 "In a Broken Dream" – 1:24 "Clouds" (featuring Amber Webber & Stephen McBean) (D. Bateman, S. McBean) – 4:07 "Black Mass" – 3:08 "Open Up Your Eyes" (featuring Abel Ferrara) (A. Ferrara) – 2:43 "Romeo Void" – 2:11 "Heaven" (featuring Gavin Clark) – 6:58 "The Piano Echoes" Zeben Jameson – 5:24 "Dolphinarium" (Japanese and Australian Bonus Track) – 1:07 "On the Run" (Japanese and Australian Bonus Track) – 3:06 Tracks: 1, 5–7, 19–22 were taken from the film Odyssey in Rome.